Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge deemed it unconstitutionally restrictive to require that a person evaluate art by taking into consideration ‘ general standards of decency ’ . |
| 2 | The implications for us are that we shall have to find it very hard to ensure that we get a share of that grant to spend on implementation of the Food Safety Act . |
| 3 | Claud however found it increasingly hard to earn because of his Communist past and it was left to Patricia to keep the various wolves from the door . |
| 4 | Her own hand tracing the ridge of his breastbone , she found it almost impossible to comprehend that she was lying here naked with a man she barely knew , and yet she was positively revelling in the feel of warm masculine flesh , the steady rise and fall of his chest . |
| 5 | Lord Justice McCowan said he found it quite impossible to hold that Mr Hurd 's political judgment — that the appearance of terrorists on programmes increased their standing and lent them political legitimacy — was one that no reasonable home secretary could make . |
| 6 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 7 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 8 | When restrictions on bank credit were relaxed , companies found it more advantageous to lend and borrow through banks , particularly as when they dealt directly transactions were unsecured . |
| 9 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 10 | In power , they found it legally difficult to identify and expel illegal immigrants , so many now think the ULFA has the more effective solution . |
| 11 | On the contrary , I found it fairly positive to announce that complaints were down to one ( now doubled ) ; that in recession 1,266 entries were judged ; that entries came from all over the world ; that the system had changed in direct response to comments made by members . |
| 12 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 13 | These pay levels have resulted in low morale within the Service and have made it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff . |
| 14 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 15 | At the same time , however , the parties have found it increasingly difficult to build and sustain popular confidence in their capacity to ‘ solve the country 's problems ’ , as these problems have become more acute and intractable . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I 've found it very hard to relax because of the pressures . |
| 17 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 18 | This is the reason for the high incidence of pre-menstrual tension among women who find it particularly difficult to relax or unwind . |
| 19 | One of the great difficulties is that many young people find it extremely difficult to admit that they have a problem . |
| 20 | If you find it too difficult to manage or |
| 21 | On that occasion , although one of them only was present , both counsel and solicitor were in court acting on their behalf , and I find it very difficult to accept that neither counsel nor solicitor at the conclusion of the hearing explained in the clearest terms to the second appellant precisely what it was that she and the first appellant were to be restrained from doing . |
| 22 | I have a Series III , two and a quarter SWB and I find it very difficult to start and keep going , even with the choke right out . |
| 23 | Doing them altogether , I find difficult to do , apart from the weather point of view , if it could be fitted to two maybe , you know you co you go to somewhere in Church Stretton okay , it 's distant enough when you have one place to go , when you do the Wellington section , you 've got four , and I find it very difficult to work and chase round to children 's homes , to give it any . |
| 24 | I find it very hard to understand that if a person who admits to having raped a person can get away with it . |
| 25 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 26 | Given that these viewpoints and value bases are so antagonistic , and yet rarely made explicit , it is not surprising that different groups find it so hard to trust and respect each other . |
| 27 | I find it almost impossible to accept that such an injury … could have occurred without extensive bruising and swelling of the nose and probably fracture or disruption of structures within the nose and associated tissues . ’ |
| 28 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 29 | Being on a data base , I suppose it means it 'll make it slightly easier to update when you come to update it ? |
| 30 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |